A little bit hard to read, but basically it says $50/day fee for trespassing. Pay at house
If you pay for permission to enter someone's land, is it really a trespass?
Agreed, strange way of wording it. I wonder if it relates to hunting. In Colorado and Utah, I've seen landowners advertising "trespass fees" for access to their private land. $50 would be extremely cheap for access to hunt elk or deer, but maybe it's for grouse or quail?
There was a spate of those fees during some O&G exploration. The most annoying one was an attorney that lived 20 miles NW of a town. His place was 80 miles from my office, you had to drive 100 miles, wait till office hours, pay the secretary at his office and get a day pass.
Once locals started hearing about the fees I would sometimes run into it during my regular property surveys. One that sticks out was the Smith survey of 600 acres. Smith was ordered by the court during probate to split the lands. I needed a section corner on his neighbor's land (Jones). I called him and he wanted a trespass fee, he had heard about it from gas development fees. I said fine as long as Smith doesn't mind paying it. Jones got upset and said he didn't want Smith to pay, he wanted me to pay. I said I'll write the check but it will go on the bill as a pass through. Jones said fine come on no fee.
Paper companies in Maine have a lot of private roads in the piney woods. You need to get a permit to use those roads. I'm not sure if they charge a fee. I expect that they do, being for-profit companies. There is some good hunting and fishing in those backwoods areas.
It was a culture shock when I left Maine and witnessed how aggressive folks in other states are with trespassing. Folks are shocked when told that, with some limitations, every great pond in Maine and Mass is subject to a public right to access (don't damage crops or grass and it only applies if there is no dedicated public access). Going out West hunting for the first time, it seemed like ranchers kept a 24 hour vigil lest someone cast a shadow across any portion of their thousands of acres.
I can see both sides of strict trespass laws though. Most landowners that I've spoken with only began placing no trespassing signs up after getting tired of picking up other people's trash.
It was a culture shock when I left Maine and witnessed how aggressive folks in other states are with trespassing. Folks are shocked when told that, with some limitations, every great pond in Maine and Mass is subject to a public right to access (don't damage crops or grass and it only applies if there is no dedicated public access). Going out West hunting for the first time, it seemed like ranchers kept a 24 hour vigil lest someone cast a shadow across any portion of their thousands of acres.
I can see both sides of strict trespass laws though. Most landowners that I've spoken with only began placing no trespassing signs up after getting tired of picking up other people's trash.
Same with me, as I grew up in NH. I never moved out of New England but my brother moved to Tennessee for a decade or so. I was blown away when he told me he had to get a hunting lease for patch of land. Practically unheard of in our area. Yankees consider wildlife as more of a common resource than those other folks do.